This study principally sought to reveal the demographic expansion of Egyptian indigenous chickens (EIC) using representative breeds: Sinai (North), Fayoumi (Middle) and Dandarawi (South) of Egypt as well as to deeply clarify their genetic diversity, possible matrilineal origin and dispersal routes. A total of 33 partial mitochondrial DNA sequences were generated from EIC and compared with a wor...

The purpose of this study is to characterize the potential benefits and challenges of electronic informed consent (eIC) as a strategy for rapidly expanding the reach of large biobanks while reducing costs and potentially enhancing participant engagement. The Partners HealthCare Biobank (Partners Biobank) implemented eIC tools and processes to complement traditional recruitment strategies in Jun...

Ebola hemorrhagic fever is an acute and often deadly disease caused by Ebola virus (EBOV). The possible intentional use of this virus against human populations has led to design of vaccines that could be incorporated into a national stockpile for biological threat reduction. We have evaluated the immunogenicity and efficacy of an EBOV vaccine candidate in which the viral surface glycoprotein is...

Virtualizing I/O subsystems and peripheral devices is an integral part of system virtualization. This paper advocates the notion of self-virtualized I/O (S-VIO). Specifically, it proposes a hypervisor-level abstraction that permits guest virtual machines to efficiently exploit the multi-core nature of futureion that permits guest virtual machines to efficiently exploit the multi-core nature of ...

Ç THIS past year saw a record number of papers submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Haptics with over 160 submissions, reflecting the very healthy state of haptics and haptic technology. This increase can be attributed in part to our two timely special issues, Active Touch Sensing in Robots, Humans and other Animals and Haptics in Neuroscience. In addition, we have been working on strategies t...

EIC Editorial J.E. Colgate ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1 SPECIAL SECTION ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS Guest Editorial for Special Section on Consumer Electronics D. Grant, S. Choi, and R. Moeller ....................................................................

THE IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH) began operations with the formation of an Editorial Board three years ago. Three years is an awfully short time in research, but when I refl ect on the fall of 2007, it seems long, long ago. I suppose—I hope—that is because a lot has happened in three years. Hundreds of papers have been submitted and reviewed, and with this issue we have printed 61 papers....

Equilibrium constants for the binding of ethyl (EIC), n-butyl (BIC), p-toluenesulphonylmethyl (TMIC) and 2,6-dimethylphenyl isocyanides (DIMPI) to an imidazole-haem complex in toluene and aqueous detergent micelle solutions were determined. In contrast to an earlier study, which indicated that the large affinities of myoglobin for binding DIMPI and 2,6-diethylphenylisocyanide (DEPI) relative to...

Akaike s Information Criterion AIC derived from asymptotics of the maximum like lihood estimator is widely used in model selection However it has a nite sample bias which produces over tting in linear regression To deal with this problem Ishiguro et al proposed a bootstrap based extension to AIC which they call EIC In this report we compare model selection performance of AIC EIC a bootstrap smo...